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It's official and incontestable: Flash Sentry is going to be a major character in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks: This Time It's Personal: The Reckoning: Part IV. Boo yah.

Not only is he a character, but he plainly wants his little pony back. Yes, this pleases the Deej. Finding out that his girlfriend is a talking horse has not fazed Flash in the slightest, just as I predicted. And you all said I was mad; mad, you said. But you fools, I've shown you all.

And Sunset Shimmer is a major character as well. This also pleases the Deej. And the Deej talks in third person when he's pleased. I am only slightly disappointed that Sunset is not jealous of Flash's continued torch-carrying for his long-lost pony princess; that makes the second time this sub-franchise has passed up the opportunity to work in a respectable love triangle subplot.

So better get out your embarrassing product for your embarrassing problem, Brony. All that butthurt you're feeling must be painful.

Oh look, Princess Pantsuit is gonna be in it, too.

Well, while you complain about Twilight's boyfriend, I guess I can complain about Celestia's wardrobe. Now where did I put my tube of embarrassing product?

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I'm not sure if much of anybody has realized it yet, but Equestria Girls undermines a common assumption of fan fiction and an attitude that appears from time to time in the Brony fandom—namely, misanthropy.

It's been played different ways in different stories: sometimes, humans are legendary monsters and nopony likes them except Lyra, sometimes humans are genuinely wicked and need to be cleaned up by being turned into ponies, and sometimes ponies have an inexplicable irrational hatred and fear of humans, or, more often, humans have a hatred of ponies.

That last one in particular I've never been able to swallow; if giant scaly monsters with big teeth landed on our doorstep, I could understand people having a negative reaction to them, being afraid or being repulsed, at least until they maybe got away and calmed down and reason kicked in and they decided to evaluate the situation more carefully. But if big cuddly plush toys with cute voices landed on our doorstep, we might be startled, but I can't imagine fear and loathing being a long-term response to such creatures, at least as long as they didn't start eating people or something. Besides that, since people actually like horses a lot in real life, and since this franchise exists to exploit that, human hatred of ponies seems implausible. This idea that humans and ponies would necessarily hate each other appears to be based on the popular notion, which has trickled down from know-nothing academics, that humans are naturally racist, which is outrageously and obviously false.

Within Equestria Girls, we see none of the reactions that fan fiction works have anticipated.

1.) When Twilight Sparkle finds herself transformed into a human, she doesn't know what manner of creature she is. This challenges the idea that humans are in any way a species known to the ponies (though this is fan-saveable, since Twilight, in spite of her vast reading, has at other times displayed plot-convenient ignorance).

2.) Twilight expresses no fear of humans beyond what would be normal for someone in an alien place and an unusual situation. She doesn't seem to much mind having a human sort-of boyfriend, either (because this is My Little Pony, which has been pulling that crap since 1987).

3.) Twilight is concerned about anyone finding out she's a pony, but she's only worried that they'll think it's "weird," not that they'll come after her with pitchforks. When her friends do find out, they're thrilled, not appalled. No anti-pony sentiments among the human Main Six.

"Doctor, I'm only attracted to women who used to be horses. Is that normal?"

In fact, when Flash Sentry finds out Twilight is really an interdimensional talking horse, he still wants that dance. And then afterwards he says, "Now that I know you're actually a pony and now that you have wings and horse ears, I think we should totally make out G1-style." Okay, not really. But still.

5.) The human Main Six turn into half-pony freaks. They think it's awesome. The whole school thinks it's awesome. Pony love all around.

See? No animosity between humans and ponies. Zilch. Nada. None. The closest thing to a human hater is Sunset Shimmer, and that's only because she wants to lord it over everybody, though the movie's climax reveals that she's an equal-opportunity lord-it-over-er, so even she doesn't count.

>>12156221215622 Well, Twilight needs a reason to end up in the place so she can come to terms with her guilt. Unfortunately, Twilight lacks the part of her brain that recognizes guilt. So instead of it being a story in which Twilight ends up being ripped asunder by her own vices and weaknesses, It turns into a wish fulfillment fanfic.

No, the movie wouldn't show somebody torturing a pony to death, but what the movie does do is give us a canonical depiction of humans and ponies meeting, and that depiction is quite positive. We can't claim it's out of canon, either, since it's plainly meant to fit between seasons 3 and 4 of the show, so I think any HiE or pony-on-Earth stories will be obliged to deal with it in at least some fashion.

She uses the mirror like the room of requirement from Harry Potter. Twilight then follows her in and proceeds to take a huge dump on Sonshit Shiny's dreams/evil plans.

Sunset has spent so much time receiving the unending praise that she has become delusional, thats why she thinks a bunch of zombified teens could do anything.

Me thinks that she's just an under devlope character thats supposed to be our replacement goldfish for Trixie.

Aside from this convesation, don't you think a cool way to bring back the SS sunset shimmer would be pulling a loki, I can just imagine Rainbow Dash saying, "Sunset is a bag of parasprites, you can smell the crazy on her."

Celestia slams her hooves on the table.

"Have care how you speak! Sunset may be beyond reason, but she is of Canterlot and she is my student."

"She pied 87 other unicorns in two days."

"She dropped out."

Okay now i wany to write an Equestria Girls/Avengers crossover, but im to tired..

The closest thing to a human hater is Sunset Shimmer, and that's only because she wants to lord it over everybody, though the movie's climax reveals that she's an equal-opportunity lord-it-over-er, so even she doesn't count.

Much, much smaller body counts? Defeated bloodlessly in twenty-two minutes? Not possessed of ideologies that persist after their defeats?

The show is still idyllic in its presentation, by which I mean it ignores the worst parts of real life. Taken literally, even with frequent (and non-lethal) monster attacks, Equestria looks like a pretty good world.

Oh, no. I dated Princess Sky much later. In fact, I didn't start dating my way through the Pony Royale until after I had already speed-dated the entire cast of Horseland, though I don't know if speed-dating counts as having a girlfriend.

And not kinda like. Startlingly, eerily like. Like she sat for the picture. I never realized before that she had Twilight's hairstyle, but she did.

One of my favorites: HUMANS HAVE CANINES! AND THE EAT MEAT! THE HORROR!

Our carnivore dentition is pitiful, since we learned to cook our food (which helped to develop our brain, incidentaly). Any dog (Winonna) or cat (Opal) has better, sharped tools for that matter. I really cannot figure out a pony being scared of our teeth (well, maybe Daisy, but she is also scared of rabbits.)

Abour being omnivores, I have yet to see any negative reaction to other Equestrian omnivore/carnivore races like Griffin being shunned down for their natural habits. I can conceive ponies being disgusted, or revolved to the vision and smell of fry chicken in the table, as much.

Is also common to depict Fluttershy as the more spooked at the perspective of being near of a eat-meating human because, of course, she is too innocent, pure and delicate to know how nature works despite being, you know, a dedicate animal caretaker living near the Everfree, with hawks, eagles, bears, foxe, etx.. in her house. Not even the scene where she fished and feed a family of otters is enough to convince some fans of the opposite.

I actually haven't encountered either of those. I agree that our teeth shouldn't be very scary. I should think it's obvious that, with our weak jaws and tiny teeth, we're not going to successfully bite into any ponies, at least without butchering them first.

You are correct that Fluttershy feeds meat to her meat-eating animals. The expanded universe (I mean the comics) also has her smiling benevolently at two groups of feral animals who set about killing each other, but the comic's a little twisted.

I can't help but notice that vegetarians never seem to go to Equestria.